200, Lot: 341. Estimate $400. Sold for $677. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher. 913-959. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 921-931. Christ enthroned facing, holding Gospels, raising hand in benediction / Half-length crowned facing busts of Romanus, wearing loros, and Christopher, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them. DOC 7; SB 1745. Good VF, lustrous, graffito on reverse.
From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1686.